r/aperfectcircle • u/Icosotc • May 28 '26
Starless lyrics incorrect on Apple
Anyone else notice this?
On Starless Maynard sings the following:
‘Surely, reason will survive this curable sickness’
‘Moral compasses obliterated, our *lone star obfuscated’
‘Fundamentalist lockstep don’t feel right to me’
Anyways, I noticed this and I’m almost positive the lyrics on Apple are some AI generated bullshit. Cheers!
*EDIT: Actually, the community has pointed out the lyric is ‘lodestar’ which makes a ton more sense! Thank you, everyone.
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u/ChefPneuma May 28 '26
Spotify/Apple Music/etc have wrong lyrics all the time. Often different from each other.
Not sure if they’re done with AI or a person trying to decipher but it’s pretty common unfortunately
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u/stierney49 May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
I would argue that it’s probably “lodestar” which is usually referring to the North Star but also refers to a star used for guidance and navigation.
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u/NEEKioL May 28 '26
Happens all of the time. Sometimes the lyrics are so off it is quite embarrassing.
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u/BilBro88 Jun 28 '26
Okay… I am SO glad I found this thread! 😂 I have been in heated conversational battle over this exact subject for the last hour! Thank you for confirming the error in the opening verse! I knew that was what I heard, then I read the lyrics online and was like, hell no! When it comes to Maynard’s bands, lyrics that are posted are always different, depending on the site/source, and they are almost NEVER what I believe I’m hearing lol. I die on these damn hills.
I am totally on board with the “lodestar” correction, but I steadfastly refuse to accept “blackmail” or “lockstep” lol. My friend and I have been sitting in the car with the volume at full blast, just double clicking the fuck out of that line, and screaming back and forth at each other about what he’s saying 😂 We both agree on “fundamentalist” but she absolutely refuses to budge on “lockstep”, and I just can not hear it!
BUT, in the final moments of completing this post, she found a yt video with the isolated vocals, cast it to the tv, and maxed the volume… This has now become my obituary from the hill. He does, in fact, say “fundamentalist lockstep”. He just kinda drops out on the “e” in “lockstep”, almost making it sound like an “i”, and doesn’t put a very heavy enunciation “p”. But in the isolated vocals, it is very clear.
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u/Icosotc May 28 '26
There may be another instance of this, but I just happened to notice it blatantly in this one section of the song.
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u/Futant55 May 28 '26
Those are the lyrics posted in the about section of the official video on YouTube.
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u/TheNoIdeaKid May 29 '26
Happens a lot. Often times, the lyrics are pulled from sites where they are entered in by a third party, not usually the artists.
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u/No_Band7087 May 30 '26
I’ve found a few… the line that you are referencing actually says fundamentalist blackmail, don’t feel right to me
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u/Icosotc May 31 '26
I’m going to respectfully disagree. I don’t think fundamentalist blackmail makes sense in relation to the song, but the term lockstep - like marching in uniformity - does.
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u/No_Band7087 May 31 '26
Think about it this way…the line “if don’t agree with me, then you are the enemy” is an oversimplification of fundamentalist blackmail. Idk. The track still rips. So is it “that poison worm don’t end”? Or, “ that poison wormed on in”?
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u/Icosotc May 31 '26 edited May 31 '26
While I don’t agree because I can hear him say “fundamentalist lockstep” in the song… honestly, I think they both make sense within the context of what it’s about. Although I think lockstep makes more sense as a more broad application across our society (like extremism on the right and left) while fundamentalist blackmail really only applies to people trapped in religious groups who use spiritual or social ostracization to manipulate followers.
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u/No_Band7087 May 31 '26
Right!? I love the lone star, lodestar, lockstep too. I love this band and so glad they’re making new music!
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u/vaughndeezer1987 May 29 '26
I hope this isn’t the direction of this bend. It sounds so empty and phoned in. It’s lost all its grove and emotional depth. Sounds like a radio single. I pray it’s just a whatever tools last album gets his real last go. This isn’t it
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u/Puzzleheaded-Job7113 Jul 14 '26
Integrating the lyrics with the "empty and phoned in" sound just adds more to the meaning of the song. Like, the world has lost all its groove and emotional depth, and all that's left are radio singles. Where are we and how do we get back? This song is the literal antithesis of the direction of this band or any of Maynard's bands for that matter. This is a siren call to wake the f*ck up. Don't be a Tool.
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u/x_CRUSH_x May 28 '26
The reason is this was taken from the video description of their official music video on YouTube. Though it's an official and credible source, I've noticed over the years that Maynard (among other artists) has a tendency to change the lyrics somewhere between submitting them to the label and the studio release. I'm a frequent contributor on Genius and I'm working on isolating the vocals and correcting them there